Johann August Nauck (18 September 1822 – 3 August 1892) was a German classical scholar and

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. His chief work was the ''Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta'' (''TrGF'').

Biography

Nauck was born at

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in present-day

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. He studied at the University of Halle as a student of

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and

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. In 1853 he became an adjunct under August Meineke at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in

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. After a brief stint as an educator at the ''Grauen Kloster'' (1858), he relocated to St. Petersburg, where in 1869, he was appointed professor of Greek at the historical-philological institute. Nauck was one of the most distinguished textual critics of his day,Nauck , August
@ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie although, like PH Peerlkamp, he was fond of altering a text in accordance with what he thought the author must, or ought to, have written. Nauck was elected a foreign member of the

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in 1885.

Published works

The most important of his writings and translations, all of which deal with Greek language and

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(especially the tragedians) are as follows: * Fragments of

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(1848). * ''Euripidis Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum fragmenta; ex recensione Augusti Nauckii'', (1854). (

Euripides Euripides (; grc, Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian Tragedy (from the grc-gre, τραγῳδία, ''tragōidia'', ''tragōidia'') is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful e ...

, tragedies and fragments) * ''Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta'' (1856, last edition, 1983), His chief work — it was intended as a counterpart to Meineke's "comedy fragments", ("''Fragmenta comicorum graecorum''"). * Revised edition of Schneidewin's annotated

Sophocles Sophocles (; grc, Σοφοκλῆς, , Sophoklễs; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. is one of three ancient Greek tragedians, at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or co ...

(1856, etc.) * Porphyrius of Tyre (1860, 2nd ed., 1886); "''Porphyrii philosophi Platonici opuscula selecta''". * ''Lexikon Vindobonense'' (1867). * texts of

Homer Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the ...

, ''

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'' (1874) and ''

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'' (1877–1879); published as "''Homerica carmina''" (volume I. Ilias; volume II. Odyssea).WorldCat Title
Homerica carmina *

Iamblichus Iamblichus (; grc-gre, Ἰάμβλιχος ; Aramaic: 𐡉𐡌𐡋𐡊𐡅 ''Yamlīḵū''; ) was a Syrian neoplatonic philosopher of Arabic origin. He determined a direction later taken by neoplatonism. Iamblichus was also the biographer of ...

, ''De Vita Pythagorica'' (1884).

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*
Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta
' recensuit Augustus Nauck, Lipsiae sumptibus et typis B. G. Teubneri, 1856. **
Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta
' recensuit Augustus Nauck, editio secunda, Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1889.

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